I’ve had a busy day so far here at KWMC with the opening just 2 days away. I’ve just been to a meeting to catch up on how the planning is going for our opening event this Thursday and Friday. I can’t imagine how busy it will be on the day. There’s so much going [...]
I’m Press and Communications worker for the Knowle West Media Centre. We offer cutting edge media services and facilities from our new environmental building, and exciting hands on learning alongside professional practitioners. We are strongly embedded in the local community and run various groups for residents, especially young people.
My role involves doing press and [...]
I would like to thank Professor Stephen Coleman for being this week’s guest blogger on Connecting Bristol. Who could have predicted that we would have such a lively (and for some, strangely cathartic) discussion? I am sure that Stephen and his colleagues in the Centre for Digital Citizenship at Leeds University will note any [...]
I’ve enjoyed my brief visit to the blogosphere and would like to thank Bristol Council for inviting me and everyone who made comments for being so friendly and interesting. It’s something I’d like to do again. I’m not sure who the next guest blogger will be, but I’ll try to look in and see whether any [...]
I am an academic researcher. (So we are urged to admit at Academics’ Anonymous meetings.) Academics are accused of being in ivory towers; of not understanding the real world in which practitioners operate; of indulging in all sorts of abstruse theory. And sometimes these accusations are at least partly justified. But what do e-democracy practitioners [...]
Andy Williamson has suggested that ‘the UK eDemocracy debate is a bit stale, and particularly so around local government.’ It would be interesting to pursue this, not with a view to reflecting upon its staleness, but in the hope of moving the agenda forward.
I have been following e-democracy in the UK since its earliest manifestations in the work of UKCOD (UK Citizens e-Democracy), established in 1996. I was commissioned to be one of three evaluators for the Government’s national project for local e-democracy, out of which came the International Centre for Local e-Democracy (ICELE) This new body was [...]
eVoice is a four year EU funded project developing best practice in e-Participation. The focus has been on examining how new channels of communication can run alongside and support existing ones to make sure everyone can participate in civic life in the best way for them.
The evoice project has organised its third International Political Forum [...]
As we have heard in comments on this blog, the 1930’s were highly risky times. In 1932 the BBC moved to Portland Place, London and citizens passively consumed whatever media content Broadcasting House doled-out to them. Skip forward 76 years and the BBC has decided to close down its user-generated campaign site, the BBC Action [...]